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The Edgewater (2008).

The Edgewater is a four-story, 223-room hotel in Seattle, Washington. It is located on the Central Waterfront on a pier over Elliott Bay (a bay of
Puget Sound) and is
the only over-water, and water-front hotel in the Seattle area.
Shortly after it was built, shoreline zoning changes precluded the construction of
further hotels on piers.[1]
In its early years, the hotel advertised on its north elevation
that you could "fish from your room."[1][2]

The hotel is particularly famous for hosting The Beatles when they
visited Seattle in 1964 at the height of Beatlemania.[1]
Because of the Beatles' connection to the hotel, there is a
Beatles-themed suite and the hotel has hosted several
Beatles-related events and tributes in recent years.[3][4] Other
famous guests have included Led Zeppelin (who were banned from the
hotel after their second infamous stay there; see Shark
episode),[2]
the Rolling Stones,[1]Frank Zappa,[1]
and U.S. president Bill Clinton.[1]However,
Robert Plant was welcomed back to the hotel during his recent
concert in Seattle.

The hotel sits on the site of the onetime Galbraith-Bacon Pier,
renamed Pier 67 during World War II. It also incorporates part of
the area of the former Pier 68 (the Booth Fisheries Pier). Both old
piers were demolished to build the hotel. The hotel was originally
intended to open in time for the Century 21 Exposition, Seattle's
1962 world's fair, but failed to do so; it
opened the following year. Originally named the Camelot, it soon
became the Edgewater Inn (more recently, just The Edgewater).[5][1]

The Edgewater sits partly on state-owned land. A lease from the
state was renewed in 1988 and is good through 2018. As of 2008, it
pays the state a rent of $330,000 a year or 3 percent of the
hotel's gross receipts, whichever is greater. The lease requires
the hotel owners to spend a minimum of $2 million on maintenance
and refurbishing every five years.[6]

The original architects were John Graham & Co. There have
been two significant remodels: one in 1969 by James Barrington (Arcadia,
California) and another in 1990 by Seattle's Callison
Partnership.[1]

The Edgewater is owned by Noble House Hotels & Resorts,
whose 14 hotels (as of 2006) also include the Hotel Deca (formerly
Edmond Meany Hotel, University Tower Hotel) in Seattle's University District.[7]